Global Crisis of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis and Leadership of China and the BRICS: Challenges and Opportunities: Summary of a Joint Workshop by the Institute of Medicine and the Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) is caused by bacteria resistant to isoniazid and rifampicin, the two most effective first-line anti-TB drugs, originally developed and introduced in the 1950 and 1960s. This book presents the summary of a workshop convened to address the current status of drug-resistant TB globally and in China.

• | By (Author): Development, and Translation Forum on Drug Discovery, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Institute of Medicine (Author)| Steve Olson, Rebecca A. English, Anne B. Claiborne (Edited by)
• | Publisher: National Academies Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 28, 2014
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 218 pages
• | Language: NULL
• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-10: 0309285968
• | ISBN-13: 9780309285964